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Author:
Ed Tittel, Chelsea Valentine, Lucinda Dykes, Mary Brumeister
By John Wiley & Sons
Presented as a one-stop resource, Mastering XHTML is a chunky 1000-page volume, with over 400 pages used for a comprehensive reference to XHTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript scripting. Without assuming any prior knowledge, the authors explain how to write full-featured XHTML Web pages, from first code through to final upload. Unlike some titles, Mastering XHTML does not read like an HTML book rehashed. After a general introduction, there is a chapter on XHTML structure showing how it relates to the wider XML specification. Further chapters cover links, images, tables, forms and frames. There is a useful section on converting HTML to XHTML, either by hand or using tools, a strong chapter on style sheets, and a brief look at JavaScript and multimedia. The closing chapters take a step back to look at the process of developing a Web site, with tips on planning, on making a site easy to navigate, and on how to publish to the Internet. Finally, the reference section includes notes and examples, greatly increasing its value. This is a well laid-out book with clear and careful explanations and a limited n umber of screenshots. On the downside, those who ...
 Mastering XHTML, 2002-08-20
Mastering XHTML covers the beginners guide to XHTML through to a more advanced level of programming knowledge and understanding of the 'next generation' programming language set to replace the more limited use of HTML tags.Over the course of 1000+ pages the book is set out in a very clear fashion that allows non-programmers to find their way in what could be seen as a pretty daunting subject matter. That said, seasoned HTML programmers wishing to convert or simply add another string to their bow, may well find the pace of the book a little slow. The author includes a very good chapter on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) aswell as a brief introduction to JavaScript and multimedia. But in general, the book focuses on teaching XHTML code in a comprehensive yet easy to understand manner that makes for a very good professional study book for professionals and students alike.
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Author:
Lucinda Dykes, Ed Tittel
By John Wiley & Sons
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 Not what I expected., 2001-06-08
I was hoping to get a thorough beginners introduction to xml but all I got were stabs in the dark!! A little disappointing for the dummies range. Not really worth the dough! Try Inside XML by Steve Holzner. It's bulky,(1000 pages!) but very informative, and great value for money!!
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Author:
Chelsea Valentine, Lucinda Dykes, Ed Tittle
By John Wiley & Sons
Great reference and more, 2002-06-21
The XML side of things is developing rapidly, the newsletters and other mail that arrives on my desktop are always full of new proposals and recommendations, some interesting and others not.
XML Schemas are I suppose a relatively recent addition to the growing XML soup and whilst it is easy to ignore some things Schemas are an important development.
This book sets out to cover schemas in a comprehensive fashion and definitely hits the mark. The coverage of the schema recommendation is detailed and supported by examples and some really good insight from the authors. You also get coverage of the other Schema proposals including the RELAX NG schema proposals.
The book also lays out some useful standard practice for general XML development and for DTD and schema development in particular.
The book covers the use of DTD's and not only discusses the difference between schemas and DTD's but also offers some advice on how to choose between DTD's and Schemas.
The book deals with the nuts and bolts of schemas but also gives an overview of how to implement things and suggests methodologies to help you put it into practice.
I found this type of insight and advice really useful and for me it made the book into more than just a simple reference and I can see how this is actually going to help when tackling real projects.
The only warning note I would sound is that this is not a book for folks that are totally new to XML and if you don't have the basics then you need to get those elsewhere before tackling this book.
The book has a good set of references and an excellent glossary, the code examples are made available by download, again it's a pity they weren't included on a CD but that's a minor grouch.
Overall I would say it's a good book for the intermediate/experienced developer and one that will give lots of help to developers working in projects using XML as well as providing a standard reference for the current Schema recommendation.
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